2023 Presidency: “I’m Counting on Allah for Victory,” Tinubu Reveals at APC Stakeholders Directorate Meeting
- The candidacy of Bola Tinubu has continued to receive boosts as the APC Stakeholders Relations Directorate mobilises support for the party's flagbearer
- The group has declared total support for Tinubu to emerge as Nigeria's next leader and said they are counting on God for victory
- The group further noted that Tinubu's administration would bring about development and promote national unity
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential flagbearer, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said that he is counting on God to win the 2023 presidential elections because "power rests with the almighty Allah".
Legit.ng's regional reporter in Abuja, Nasir Dambatta, exclusively reports that Tinubu made this known at a Town Hall Meeting organised by the Stakeholders Relations Directorate of the APC Presidential Campaign Council in Abuja on Sunday, February 5, 2023.
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Tinubu explained that a true believer looks up to divine intervention in all they do, including seeking an elective office.
The APC presidential candidate also advised religious leaders not to allow themselves to be misled by politicians in the choice of elected representatives in the forthcoming general elections, assuring them that the APC means well to long-suffering Nigerians.
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Tinubu reveals plan for the people of Nigeria, seeks support
Tinubu told the gathering of Muslim leaders and stakeholders that the forthcoming election would be an opportunity to strengthen the ligaments that bind Nigerians together as a people whose resilience would pay off handsomely in nation building.
In his opening remark at the event, Malam Jamilu Haidara explained that the event was a roll call of Nigerians from all walks of life, namely religious scholars from the North, South-south and Southeast, expressing confidence that the engagement would be robust.
Haidara described the participants as patriots passionate about the democratic future of the nation under the APC leadership.
Tinubu is an advocate of good governance, Ribadu says
Also speaking at the event, the director of Stakeholders Relations', Malam Nuhu Ribadu, noted that Tinubu had built enough goodwill since his days as governor of Lagos State and many years afterwards, supporting the empowerment of people across the nation and advocating for good governance on the democratic space.
Jigawa State Governor Mohammad Badaru Abubakar, in his submission at the event, urged Nigerians to focus on the track record of Bola Tinubu as an elected representative in the past and ignore the "failed revisionism of Tinubu's political rivals", adding that the APC presidential flagbearer has already unveiled his development agenda for the country.
Other prominent Nigerians were in attendance at the event, notably the former Speaker Oladimeji Bankole, former Minister of the FCT, Dr Aliyu Modibbo, former State House permanent secretary Mal. Jalalu Arabi, Mal. Nafiu Baba Ahmed, Secretary-General, SCSIN, Sheikh Dr Khalid Aliyu, Secretary-General, JNI and member Board of Trustees, SCSIN, Sheikh Dr Bashir Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, Sheikh Prof. Abdullahi Pakistan, Sheikh Khalid Usman Khalid, Dr Aliyu Tilde, Sheikh Dr Haroun Ajah, Sheikh Muhammad Sirajuddeen, Special Adviser to the APCP PCC on Public Affairs, Mahmud Jega, among many others.
Buhari speaks on 2023 presidential election, reveals how APC will work for Tinubu's emergence
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, February 6th, in Katsina, said the All Progressives Congress would mobilise all of its electoral machinery to ensure the victory of its flagbearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the February 25th presidential election.
The Nigerian leader also called on the Emir of Katsina, Abdulmumini Usman and the Emirate Council to mobilise for Tinubu’s victory.
“We will work for his victory at the polls,” Buhari said during a courtesy call at the Emir’s palace in Katsina.
Source: Legit.ng
